A Doctor Dong Gets a Second Spring in Life (Part Two) [Please Vote for the Monthly Tickets]

"Will the doctors taking their turn arrive this afternoon?"

Shen Tang's mind stalled for a moment.

She asked, uncertainly, "Isn't today the first day of the new year?"

Shen Tang was strict with herself, but she was quite forgiving toward others—especially doctors like Elder Physician Dong. "If this batch arrives today, doesn't that mean they spent the New Year on the road? Couldn't they have left half a month earlier or half a month later? The fighting's been over for months, and we're not short on doctors in camp. They should enjoy a proper New Year. It's not as if I'd rush them."

Shen Tang had started establishing the military doctor system back when she was building everything from scratch. More than half of the deaths in a war occurred after the fighting ended, usually from blood loss or infected wounds. If the wounded could receive effective treatment in time, the mortality rate would drop considerably. But medicine was different from other fields. The time it took to train a qualified doctor was more than she could afford.

Elder Physician Dong agreed with her and had always cooperated.

Aside from a handful of proper doctors, most of the military doctors in the wounded soldiers' camp knew only basic treatment for external injuries and how to stitch wounds. They learned as they traveled with the army, but there were simply too many wounded. After treating so many patients, they had developed decent emergency skills.

Elder Physician Dong would then select promising people from among them for further training. They took turns serving: when there was a war, they accompanied the army; when there wasn't, they treated the soldiers' headaches, fevers, sprains, and bruises. The soldiers' bones and muscles grew stronger from the nourishment of morale during training. They were still a